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A
Tree of Life
Diversity, Flexibility, and Creativity in Jewish
Law
Author Information - Contents - Publication Details - Reviews
Now revised and expanded, Louis Jacobs's fascinating study shows how halakhic
rulings through the ages have been influenced by social, economic, theological,
and even political factors as well as by consideration of the wider ideals
and demands of Judaism. Halakhic responses to changed social considerations,
particularly regarding women and questions of personal status, new technologies
and discoveries, and attitudes to non-Jews are all considered in depth.
'Louis Jacobs demonstrates a profound scholarship in the second edition
of this important work. The breadth of source and the volume of analysis
are truly extraordinary.'
Reuven Livingstone, Jewish Chronicle
Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, is a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He is the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including A Tree of Life (second edition 2000) and Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein's Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995).
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| Format | 23.5 x 15.5 cm / 6" x 9" |
| Pages | 344 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1-874774-48-8 |
| Price | £18.95 / $29.95 |
| Date of publication | 2000 |
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© The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009